posting in 8k in protest of moldy mondays rule

- or photo editing, in which case GIMP is better, and it's FOSS
  
  GIMPs UI is steaming hot pile of shit unfortunately. It's very powerful yes, but the UI is really hard to figure out.
  
  GIMP is somehow worse than Photoshop and I have no idea why. Inkscape and paint.net exist. Hell Corel paint shop exists.
  
  It's sad to say but Photoshop smokes basically all of its competitors except the ones that get into a specificic niche, but even then stuff like illustrator and lightroom compete well in that marketplace.
  Photoshop may not be FOSS but it may as well be considered free due to the rampant piracy. I frequently recommend it forgetting it's a subscription based Ad*be made product.
  
  Why would you recommend GIMP when Krita exists
  
  Serif's Affinity suite isn't free, but the UI is much more approachable than GIMP's. The maintainers also aren't being weirdly defensive about a name that's a pun of a slur or sex thing.
  
  As someone with both installed, I disagree. Photoshop is the industry standard for a reason.
  I'll use GIMP when I'm doing editing for my job that doesn't pay for an Adobe license, but otherwise I'll use Photoshop every time.
  
  Is it though?
  
  or drawing. in which Krita is stellar
- How bad is the learning curve? I've been cobbling stuff together with Openshot.
  
  Pretty steep, it's software aimed at professionals, and it shows. There are a few tutorials from Black Magic design where you can download the source media and follow along, which I found very useful.
  I found you really need to spend a few evenings learning the software before you actually edit anything.
  
  I use both. You can set up Davinci Resolve so it uses the same key bindings as Premiere Pro
  Edit: I was too quick. You didn't mention Premiere Pro at all. Sorry

Just came here to say fuck Adobe acrobat

At this point, I'd say it's not just correct but a moral obligation. Adobe has caused incalculable damage to the softwarescape by buying up smaller but popular companies, shoving their products full of AI crap, and putting them behind a subscription.
Allegorithmic used to have Linux releases for several of their Substance products. They no longer exist. Guess what fucking happened.
- The <= 2020 versions of Adobe products basically all still work on Linux as well :)
  Some of the menus are buggy, but it works for 99/100 of my personal use cases (or I switch to a rinky-dink windows partition or VM)
  
  Technically Substance products work too on Wine, but with a massive hit to performance because they use the GPU through some esoteric API that isn't covered by DXVK or VKD3D.

If you see someone pirate proprietary software: No you didn't.
- First you tell them about the FSF...
  I’d like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux or as recently i have taken to calling - GNU+Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself but rather another free component of a full functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
- Are knowing nods acceptable?

Would you say you pirate those products by...
Prince-ple?

Mom, can we get Prince
We already have Prince at home.
Prince at home ^

This is the highest quality version of this meme I've ever seen
- Must have been made with pirated photoshop.

Anyone know where I could get a good copy of Lightroom?
- So cgpeers has been the best place to get those from for me buuut they closed registrations a couple of years ago now. I can throw a link to the 2024 monkrus version I grabbed though. Not sure how people are with straight up linking things in here though.
- I came her to ask the same question.
  
  I came her to ask the same question.
  Good for you, but you don't have to make anyone cum just to ask

I remember being told to get GIMP because it's the same thing as Photoshop but free and open source. So I tried it.
It's not the same. Not by a long shot. Those who love it because it's open source should mod it up to actually be as good as Photoshop.

I feel like it's even advantageous to them to pirate. If everyone wanting to work in graphic design pirates Photoshop, they'll know how to use it in the business world, and their work will buy it because it's what everyone knows.